Viking
Variety
Viking
created by Inka1 at 06.12.2022
Features
Location
planting: bed
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Description
The chokeberry, also known as black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa), bare chokeberry or black rowan, is a shrub that grows up to 2 m high and belongs to the rose family (Rosaceae). It is frost-hardy down to -35°C, salt-tolerant, not very susceptible to diseases and pests, very rich in vitamins and is also used as a source of dye. The green leaves turn bright red when the berries ripen in the fall. The flowers of the shrub are white. Its berries are spherical and up to 8.5 mm thick. They ripen from aubergine-colored to glossy black. Like apples, the berries also have a core and are ready to harvest as soon as the inside of the berry is colored through.
F1 Hybrid
Frostproof
Growing tips
As the shrub forms root runners, it should be provided with a generously dimensioned root barrier. Shrubs in pots can be planted almost all year round. They do not require pruning. With bare-rooted shrubs, however, all damaged shoots should be removed and all others shortened by about half. The main roots should also be freshly pruned and any broken pieces removed. (From mein-schöner Garten). Fertilizing is not necessary, but the shrub is grateful for an occasional dose. Cut out the oldest shoots every 2-3 years. Shorten new shoots by 1/3 in spring for better branching. The shrub can also be easily integrated into a hedge. Popular with insects.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
Low
Dark germinator
Germination temperature
20 - 22 °C (Degrees Celsius)
Plant distance
100 cm
Row spacing
100 cm
Seeding depth
0.5 cm
Companion Plants
Aronia berries
Beetroot
Black salsify
Blueberry
Buddleja / Butterfly Bushes
Carrots
Catnip
Chard
Chives
Clover / Trefoil
Comfrey
Common marigold
Coneflower (Echinacea)
Crocus
Currant
Daisies
Dogwood
Elderberry
Forsythia
Funk
Garden cosmos / Mexican aster
Garlic
Garlic chives
Geranie/Pelargonie
Gooseberry
Grasses - feather-bristled grasses, lamp-cleaning grasses
Grasses - Fescue
Grasses - Sedges
Hazelnut
Hellebores
Honigbeere (Lonicera kamtschatica)
Hydrangea / Hortensia
Large cranberry / American cranberry
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Lingonberry / Partridgeberry / Mountain cranberry
Lung herbs
Lupine / Bluebonnet
Make
Nasturtium
Onion
Onion (Spring onion)
Parsnip
Peony
Phacelia / Scorpionweed / Heliotrope
Phlox, flame flower
Privet
Purple bellflower, silver bellflower
Quadriceps
Rhododendron
Rock pear (Amelanchier)
Rose
Rudbeckia (Coneflower / Black-eyed-susans)
Scented nettles
Snowdrop
Spinach (Summer)
Spinach (Winter)
Spirea
Strawberry
Sunflower
Sweet woodruff / Sweetscented bedstraw
Tagetes / Marigolds
Weigela
Wild garlic
Women's coats
Yarrow
Antagonistic Plants
Aubergine / Eggplant
Begonias
Blackberry / Brambles
Broccoli
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage (Cabbage)
Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)
Cabbage (red cabbage)
Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)
Cauliflower
Chili
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Collard greens
Collard greens (Kale)
Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)
Common mugwort
Coriander / Cilantro
Corn / Maize
Courgette / Zucchini
Cucumber (African horned cucumber / Kiwano)
Cucumber (Caigua)
Cucumber (Melothria)
Cucumber / Gherkin
Dill
Fennel
Florence fennel / Finocchio
Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash
Grasses - Bamboos
Grasses - reeds, cattails, bulrushes
Hair cucumbers / snake gourds
horse chestnut
Ivy
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Lavender
Lovage
Maples
Melissa
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Okra
Oregano
Ornamental pumpkin
Pak Choi
Parsley
Pepper / Paprika
Potato
Pumpkin / Squash
Rapeseed
Rapeseed - Sheer cabbage / Siberian cabbage
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Raspberry
Rhubarb
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Sage
Savory
Sponge gourd / Egyptian cucumber / Vietnamese luffa
Stem herbs
Succulents
Thyme
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - Ribbed cabbage / Portuguese cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - wild cabbage / ancient cabbage
Walnut family
Willows
Yalta tomatoes
Diseases
Septoria
Root Rot
Angular leaf spot of cucumber
Powdery mildews
Pests
Caterpillars
Spotted wing drosophila
Aphids
Common winter moth
